"One false step leads to another" nghĩa là gì?

"One false step leads to another" -> nghĩa là sai một li đi một dặm, tương tự với cụm từ "a miss is as good as a mile"

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“A miss is as good as a mile and having come so close last year maybe we should have taken it. Things weren't in place to take it last year, just wasn't the time,” said Bennett.

Go to the beach and don’t worry about the meter. What? But back home one false step leads to another. One minute over or under, one tyre past or present and the fine was absolutely warranted and rarely contested. We couldn’t walk away and he was laughing at us in his perfect suit and symmetrical (đối xứng) tie knot.

According to The Paper, Chen Xiangdong, founder and CEO of GSX, responded on his WeChat moments, claiming: “We are out of words for how shameless this report is.” Chen also quoted a Chinese idiom to argue the value of honesty: “As we often say, ‘one false step leads to another.’ This is how certain people, personalities, reputation (danh tiếng), wealth (sự giàu có), and organizations stand out from the rest. Because of trust and belief. It’s that simple.”

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